Richard R

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Welcome aboard! Lots of Welsh friends on here.

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That should be good.

A tuba I can afford, a divorce I can't!

Just read this, completely missed all the news articles and reporting. I loved Sky as a teenager and last year bought the studio albums boxed CD set. Playing those tracks up and down the motorway has been a joy, and listening into them at home has been a real education in bass playing. RIP Herbie Flowers.

Some are indeed awesomely crunchy, but also hard work. And the organists play them with their feet while also playing three keyboards with only two hands!

Excellent! Worship as a party is good. 🥳 By contrast- I spent this morning sat in the congregation, dog tired from last week and a bad night's sleep, just listening to the band rock and hearing in my head the bass lines I wish had the time or the energy to have added. C'est la vie for the time being, more fun times will come around eventually.

The static build up on acrylic bodies attracts dust and fur, and in extreme cases entire cats and small mammals can get stuck to the bass.

That is just brilliant!

https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/linkin-park-singer-tour-album-cover-story-interview-1235766805/

Never rated LP much to be honest, but that's definitely got something!

Holland Oates - Eventually made it back in 1973 to record "Abandoned Lunchenette"

Maybe because the open string is more free to vibrate over a zero fret than within a nut slot? There would be a little more horizontal freedom for sure, and perhaps more vertical if the break angle didn't pull the string down hard? Maybe a clamp that screws the strings down hard against the zero fret would stop this wear, and do double-duty as the clamp on a headless bass?

Sounds fabulous, though a hell of a lot of work for you so don't feel you have to do the cab build as well. You need browsing time too. I could possibly bring the church portable PA, which is an older Yamaha analogue mixer with built in amps plus a couple of 12" tops. Nobody would ever buy that gear new now, but it's inexpensive on the 2nd hand market. Careful choice of reference tracks will be required for this... 😉

Bugger! I haven't played the bass with the hex pickup this year, so I thought I'd have a practice on that rather than the #1. Except one of the pickups isn't working, so the A string is silent. 😠 This is a real problem, there are a dozen very, very, fine wires in the pickup, so a repair will probably only make things worse. A straight replacement is nearly £200, and I would probably get a proper fitting kit instead if I had to spend that much. In which case I would also replace the truss rod, reshape the headstock and do a lot of things I have no time for. Practical upshot is that it's not going to be sorted by the bash. I can bring it along anyway, so people can hear the various emulations of they want to?

I'm going to catch up on that later. 💃

I decided I should listen to the Oasis compilation "Stop the clocks", so I could form a more objective view on the band. There were some clever lyrics in a couple of songs, and I can see why they appealed to people. However I need a bit more variety in my music, so the next two hours is this:

Never smoked anything in my life, the universe is weird enough as it is! 😁

Following! @SamIAm is a quiet genius and will do an excellent job. 🍿

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Which continent? We're short on members from Antarctica. (Basschat humour 😉)

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